Giant Amazon Water Lily - Neatorama

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The Giant Amazon Water Lily, or Victoria amazonica {wiki} is the largest water lily in the world. And it throws its weight around, too! Sir David Attenborough narrates this time-lapse video. -via Digg

That is totally badass.

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Nice link. What program is this taken from?

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At first, I thought it was some sort of flesh eating animal. It *is* totally badass.

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They should call it from the original name.
repeat with me:

VITORIA-REGIA.

that's it.

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Neat. What else to say.

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argh, and to think i was THIS close to seeing them, but our guide wanted to head back to the camp...

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scarry to me ;)

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Awesome! I love David Attenborough and his works. Great stuff. I remember seeing a picture of a an Amazon Water Lily pad with a child sitting in it playing in it on National Geographic. It really blew my mind. 6 feet!

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Those things are huge. theyre like the big ones at the zoo you jump across. :)

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Sir David Attenborough voice is sooo awesome!

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Did I hear him right? The leaves are 6ft across? Wow.. I can't even imagine that.
It's kinda scary with the spiny leaves, but still interesting.

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Why can't we borrow Sir David for some documentaries? Most of the US-produced ones have narrators who sound as if they're presiding over the most boring (and pretentious) thing possible to imagine.

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